Time to spot your sloe bushes

[chris]

Don't think it was

What's their usual habitat?

[BigShot]

Around here... in the middle of a municipal park... in a very public spot... and ONLY ME picking them!
Baaaaaahahahahaha!!!

(I really should finish off the ones in the freezer now. I can't believe I've still not made all my sloe gin and wine and it's closer to elderflower season than sloe season. I'm slacking!)

[Jeanied]

Chris they are lower than the wild damsons and cherries - more a scrubby hedge than a fruit tree - often in mixed hedges with hawthorn. Ginger and I have been out for a trip to the garden centres and there are loads of them everywhere.

[chris]

Right, put the kettle on, tell GN to get some cake on the go - I'm coming up.

[wellie]

I vaguely remembered the places that Trousers lacerated his hands and arms last year, harvesting sloes for me, and, mindful that it's MY turn to get lacerated this year, I set out of the side gate last week to check the sloe blossoms in the hedges, and then immediately turned back.

Largely, because every Sloe blossom is winking at me up to the horizon from every angle that I look from where I stand in the garden.

As I said on my blog this evening, the fruit blossom this year is just OUTSTANDING, and if things go to plan, we're in for one AMAZING crop of fruits my friends.....X

[Sylvan]

Does that mean another hard winter on the way?

[chris]

I vaguely remembered the places that Trousers lacerated his hands and arms last year, harvesting sloes for me, and, mindful that it's MY turn to get lacerated this year, I set out of the side gate last week to check the sloe blossoms in the hedges, and then immediately turned back.

Largely, because every Sloe blossom is winking at me up to the horizon from every angle that I look from where I stand in the garden.

As I said on my blog this evening, the fruit blossom this year is just OUTSTANDING, and if things go to plan, we're in for one AMAZING crop of fruits my friends.....X

Where abouts are you in wales wellie?

[Jeanied]

Does that mean another hard winter on the way?

Well my hostess (Ginger Ninger) reckons so.

[ginger ninger]

Right, put the kettle on, tell GN to get some cake on the go - I'm coming up.

Your very welcome to call for a cuppa and some CAKE chris when your in the area.

[ginger ninger]

Well my hostess (Ginger Ninger) reckons so.

The blossom was early last year on both the sloes and the cherry plumbs, we ended up with a really bad winter this year.

[Sylvan]

Our big old Victoria plum and the new greengage are both in full flower too. I think you could be right.